Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Self Quotes, Government Quotes

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

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Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.

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The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

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As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results.

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It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

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My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

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If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.

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It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

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Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

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... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

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Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

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Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

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Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

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We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

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